Help to open a specific folder

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#1

Hello everyone. 1st time poster here. I am just learning applescript and of course I’m impatient and want to do something without reading the whole book, so to speak. If someone knows of a ˜phrase book’ kind of site for applescript, that would be great.

I’m looking to simply open a new window of a specific folder on a specific drive already mounted on my system. Using this path, how would I open a new window in column view…

Trevor’s HD > Users > trevor > Desktop

I’ve alread figured out how to give the user a selection of several drives, let them pick, and then that volume mounts on their system. I want to take it to the next step and give them the exact window/folder they should be at. Any help would be great. Thanks!

#2

I assume you’re talking about OS X, in which case this thread is moving to the correct forum.

#3

Yes I am talking about OSX. Thanks.

#4

Do you know about dictionaries? You may also be interested in the AppleScript Language Guide.

Basically, you want something like this:

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	open "Trevor's HD:Users:trevor:Desktop:"
	tell front Finder window to set current view to column view
end tell

However, you could also use this:

set theFolder to path to desktop

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	open theFolder
	tell front Finder window to set current view to column view
end tell
#5

thanks Bruce. Both work good, but it’s the 1st one that i will use seeing as the Desktop folder i want to open is not my own, it’s the mounted volume of a co-worker. Thanks a lot.